Charis Florides

Charis is working for Business Consulting Services at Logicom Solutions. His role is to help clients define technology related strategies, build frameworks and safeguard their business by proactively identifying, analysing and assessing areas that threaten the organization’s information assets and/or operations.

He has over 11 years of experience and he has been involved in numerous projects related to different aspects and areas of Information Technology. During his previous employment, Charis had the role of the Head of Information and Systems Audit at a major Financial Institution of Cyprus, being responsible for managing the departments of Information Systems Audit and Data Analytics of Internal Audit Unit.

More specifically, Charis has been actively involved, among others, in projects related to the design and implementation of Information Security technologies and architecture, implementation of Information Security Strategies and Frameworks based on the ISO27001 standard, Digital Forensics frameworks based on the ISO270037 standard, assessment and auditing of different financial Institutions related technologies and procedures.

Charis holds an MSc in Information Security from Royal Holloway University of London and a B.Sc. in Software Engineering from the Alexander Technological Educational Institute of Thessaloniki.

Charis is also a member of the board of the Cyprus Certified Information Security Professionals (ISC2) Chapter. He is also a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) and also an Offensive Security Certified Professional (OSCP).